Who are “we”? Examining relational ethos in British Columbia, Canada's COVID-19 public health communication

Climate Change and Health in British Columbia

Public health perspectives on postwar mental health: gender, housing and family in Kitimat, British Columbia, 1950s.

BACKGROUND The aftermath of World War II brought rapid change to the ways in which Canadian communities were designed and how their populations experienced their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how mental health was understood and experienced in the context of the postwar period using the well-documented construction (in 1953) of the comprehensively planned, resource-based commun...

Lyme disease in British Columbia: Are we really missing an epidemic?

224 ABSTRACT: The risk of Lyme disease depends on climate, geography, the abundance of specific insect vectors, and human interaction with these. In BC, Ixodes pacificus, the primary tick vector for the causeative spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has consistently been found in low numbers in populous areas, and rates of infection in this tick remain at less than 1%. Correspondingly, rates of h...

Global Challenge of Health Communication: Infodemia in the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

Dear Editor The international community has been faced with one of the most critical health conditions in recent decades due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which experience hundreds of thousands of infected cases and tens of thousands of deaths. Alongside of COVID-19 pandemic we have been faced a new phenomenon of "Infodemic" or “epidemic of false information” about COVID-19. C...

First Local Transmission Cluster of COVID-19 in Malaysia: Public Health Response

Introduction: Rapid public health response is important in controlling the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this study, we described the public health response received by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia in managing the first local transmission cluster of COVID-19 related to mass-gathering and inter-state traveling to celebrate a festival. <stron...